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  1. hatguy1

    Question about fountain pens

    Thanks for that tip, Robin. Unfortunately, Teepol doesn't appear to be commonly available in the States. Would you (or any other Loungers) know of an American equivalent? One of my pens is a wooden finish pen and I'd hate to damage that finish using too strong a product. Thanks again for this...
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    Question about fountain pens

    Modern Cross. $26.99. I don't know what a converter is. I wondered about that myself. I was thinking that perhaps it was obstructed with paper fibers or something. The clerk in Office Max (for whatever it's worth) said water wasn't supposed to be used in cleaning. However, she offered no...
  3. hatguy1

    Question about fountain pens

    I've got a relatively inexpensive cartridge fountain pen (a Cross and cost around $30, IIRC). It's been dependable as can be - until recently. About a month ago it started acting as if it was out of ink (cartridge not empty) periodically during journal writing, etc. If I shook it a little, it...
  4. hatguy1

    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    That same kind of irrationality nowadays tries to say the Holocaust never happened either.
  5. hatguy1

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    To each their own. I LOVE Casablanca and never tire of watching it.
  7. hatguy1

    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    "'It was a bright, sunny day in Hiroshima, when without warning the US dropped the worlds first atom bomb on the peaceful city'." That's the height of hypocrisy in one statement. Someone should remind them that the same could've been said about them attacking the peaceful fleet anchored in...
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    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    I've heard it credited more to the shock value of the magnitude of the bomb's destruction which theretofore had never been seen in anything outside a thousand plane raid or something on that scale. Certainly not from a single plane raid or single bomb.
  9. hatguy1

    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    I don't see how you think they weren't effective. Japan would've never surrendered without having the a-bombs dropped on them OR an outright invasion of the Islands of Japan. That was predicted to cost a million or more lives on both sides. Seems to me that the A-bombs brought the War to a...
  10. hatguy1

    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    I've always found Japan's attitude about the a-bomb a little hypocritical. Nay, make that a lot hypocritical. They weren't any more a victim than the thousands of our sleeping soldiers and sailors and the civilians at Pearl Harbor who they sneak attacked in the pre-dawn hours of December 7...
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    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    "Patton strikes me as a man a bit like Churchill: flourished in a war situation, but a bit lost in peacetime." Yep. Can't argue with that. Patton was the last of the great warrior generals. He only took territory and didn't give it back. He didn't mince words and he didn't try to play...
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    Patton leads German troops against USSR?

    Except, if I'm not mistaken, Patton only wanted to unleash the captured SS - who were fanatical and anti-Russian/communist - on the Russians. That might've played out very differently than if he'd unleashed the average war-weary regular Wermacht soldier.
  14. hatguy1

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Thanks, guys! I would've really loved to have taken one of my Panama Bob's straws to FL, but didn't trust the airline carry on baggage areas with a delicate straw fedora. :cool:
  15. hatguy1

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    "Fury." I didn't get to see "Fury" in the theaters. But I passed an endcap this morning with it available on DVD, so I bought it and watched it this evening. Now that I've watched it, I'm not sure if it was a good or bad movie. Let me prep my comments with the realization that I am not a...
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    Fury

    OK.... I realize this is very "Johnny Come Lately," but I didn't get to see "Fury" in the theaters. But I passed an endcap this morning with it available on DVD. Now that I've watched it, I'm not sure if it was a good or bad movie. Let me prep my comments with the realization that I am not a...
  17. hatguy1

    Hair cuts

    Bad haircuts can be covered by a great fedora! :cool:
  19. hatguy1

    Shave of the Day

    Stopped in to the original location of V's Old Fashioned Barbers in Arcadia, AZ for a professional straight razor shave! Ooh la la! What with the towels, the creams, the facial massage my face ain't ever had it so good or been so smooth! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  20. hatguy1

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    A little Cabernet wine with dinner followed by some blackberry wine on the balcony watching the sun go down. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  21. hatguy1

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Champagne! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  22. hatguy1

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I make a point to thank a cashier for counting change back to me.. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  23. hatguy1

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Going walkabout today, so will be wearing my "walkabout" hat. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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